Tag: UK

  • Say hello to the Brickle lego table

    If you know Lego, you know the pains of the Lego sorting and storage.

    I’ll be honest, I’ve never pondered the storage solution landscape for Lego really until now. Clearly there’s storage-agnostic solutions most folks will reach for. Container Store, IKEA, generic plastic bins. Those are fine choices.

    The holy grail solution for storing Lego must meet a few bits of criteria. Scalable and easy-to-clean are probably the two biggest factors. But the utility of sorting is rarely considered.

    Enter the Brickle. A storage solution and play table. The simple design consists of a system of drawers. Each drawer consists of gradually smaller holes, allowing for each drawer Lego to drop from drawer to drawer for passive organization by size. From their website description:

    Capable of comfortably holding up to 15 kilograms of LEGO® pieces, and with five lanes there’s plenty of options when it comes to sorting your collection. As for the infamous special pieces drawer this has a total of 41 compartment slots of differing sizes meaning your child will have somewhere for every important part of their collection.

    Absolutely ingenious invention.

    brickle.co

    Pretty cool huh? Visit their instagram to checkout videos of it in action. Check out their website to order (only available in the UK at this time)

  • Adobe abandons $20B acquisition of Figma

    Adobe abandons $20B acquisition of Figma

    Jess Weatherbed reporting at The Verge writes:

    Following mounting pressure from regulators in the UK and EU, Adobe and Figma announced on Monday that both companies are mutually terminating their merger agreement, which would have seen Adobe acquire the Figma product design platform for $20 billion.

    As a result of the termination, Adobe will be required to pay Figma a reverse termination fee of $1 billion in cash.

    It’s a Christmas miracle! The competition in the field of creative/graphic design software is horrendous, so this is definitely good news if you’re a creative. The last time I wrote about this merger, I had a feeling the deal was going to be torn apart. Theoretically, this news means lower prices and more innovation down the road as Adobe and Figma compete for customers. This is also yet another sign that the United States has largely abdicated its regulatory authority to the European Commission.

  • An Aerial View of Old Harry Rocks

    An Aerial View of Old Harry Rocks

    Old Harry Rocks are a uniquely gorgeous set of chalk rock formations in Dorset, England. Fun-fact, Dorset and the surrounding Isle of Purbeck are incredibly ancient. Known visitors to Dorset date as back to 8000BCE ????

    Image via Reddit (/u/DomCraggoo).